Abhorsen: 3 [Mass Market Paperback] Nix, Garth

The Dead won't stay buried in the Old Kingdom. Lirael, newly minted Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Prince Sameth face their greatest challenge yet: a necromancer raising an ancient evil that could destroy the boundary between Life and Death itself. With the creature Orannis stirring and Free Magic unleashed, the fate of the kingdom rests on a ragged band of defenders — a Disreputable Dog, a sendings-made-flesh, and two young people who never asked for their bloodlines or their duties. Garth Nix concludes his original Old Kingdom trilogy with battles that span both sides of death, impossible choices, and the kind of high-stakes fantasy that defined a generation of readers. The necromancy is grim, the magic system is intricate, and the stakes are apocalyptic. For fans of dark fantasy, charter magic, and protagonists who walk in Death itself.